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Marsokhod, Some Russian work on Mars rovers

Guest_DonPMitchell_*	May 31 2006, 03:57 AM Post #1
Guests	You may have seen these before, but here are a few Marsokhod rover designed developed and tested by TransMASH. First is a concept developed for a Mars-94 mission. Note the radioisotope thermopile generator on the back. [attachment=5964:attachment] They also experimented with walking rovers, and with hybrid concepts that included wheels on articulated axles: [attachment=5965:attachment] [attachment=5966:attachment] [attachment=5967:attachment] In 1999, TransMASH worked with NASA on a Mars rover, a blend of Marsokhod and some American concepts clearly. Looks similar to the ExoMars rover, I think. [attachment=5968:attachment]

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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jun 3 2006, 08:36 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Here's a Marsokhod for you - from the 2002 cover of the Russian Popular Mechanics: http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/oblo...ech-2002-12.jpg Now that's how you land on a planet! None of these wussy beach balls bouncing around! -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

helvick View Member Profile	Jun 4 2006, 12:51 AM Post #3
Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1772 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220	QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 3 2006, 09:36 PM) Now that's how you land on a planet! None of these wussy beach balls bouncing around! The cultural references are all wrong but when I saw that the cry "Yeeehaaaw!" just seemed so appropriate - a landing like that would really be staking a frontier claim.

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DonPMitchell Marsokhod May 31 2006, 03:57 AM

BruceMoomaw "Pele" -- one of the proposals for the f... May 31 2006, 05:57 AM

ljk4-1 Here's a Marsokhod for you - from the 2002 cov... Jun 3 2006, 08:36 PM

helvick QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 3 2006, 09:36 PM... Jun 4 2006, 12:51 AM

BruceMoomaw Actually, one of the selling points for Marsokhod ... Jun 4 2006, 01:46 AM

Zvezdichko I'm sorry for digging up this old thread, but ... Jan 14 2007, 12:45 PM

As old as Voyager You're right of course. It was a brilliantly a... Jan 14 2007, 02:59 PM

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